You have to wonder if lots of positions for .NET and Java mean high turnover rather than more jobs. Seems to me that PHP, Ruby, etc get more passionate programmers (self taught or otherwise) whereas .NET and Java are your career CompSci grads who saw it as a good money spinner. I don't know if that means being paid more or less - but I'll bet you that more PHP developers are self-employed, small business owners or partners than Java or .NET devs. No doubt that skews the curve.
Regards Hamish On Jul 14, 2:36 am, Paul Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure about .NET, but I know Java devs do quite well, although many > do end up working on some pretty boring legacy business apps / > "enterprise software" inside rather stifling organisations. > > From my experience inside a large public sector organisation, Java > training is far more formalized than open source web training, the > teams are larger and more structured and there are far more rigorous > planning and documentation practices than most people in the web world > would be comfortable with. > > Still didn't stop them producing some pretty awful software though > (particularly where it intersected with the web space) > > IMO there was too much emphasis on procedure and formality and far > less emphasis on listening to what people wanted and delivering it on > time and with a usable interface. > Having said that, I'm sure that my isolated experience isn't > representative of the industry as a whole. > > Regards, > Paul -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
